TRUE OR FALSE?
Because fewer women study and work in STEM, these fields tend to perpetuate inflexible, exclusionary, male-dominated cultures that are not supportive of or attractive to women and minorities.
TRUE
What percentage of the world's researchers are women?
Less than 30%
American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Director of the Academies
Ms. McClure!
Engineering is the more male-dominated field.
TRUE.
As of 2018, how many of the nearly 600 Nobel Prizes in science have been awarded to women?
Only 20 Nobel Prizes
She is considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, after 60 years of studying the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees.
Jane Goodall
Chillest Engineering teacher?
Mr. Ghosh
75% of the US STEM workforce are Female
FALSE.
Estimate of the percentage of the pay gap for latinx womxn in the US compared to white men
58%
Who was the first woman to enter space?
Valentina Tereshkova
Mr. Meyers
The first woman to receive a Nobel Prize was in 1903.
TRUE -- Marie Curie
What percentage of all female students select STEM-related fields in higher education?
30%
I am a British chemist who was instrumental in discovering the structure of DNA. A rover going to Mars in 2021 will bear my first name.
Rosalind Franklin
We have a mentoring program
YES! If you are interested let us know!
FALSE. Marie Curie is remembered for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her huge contribution to finding treatments for cancer.
Women of color comprise of __ of the total workforce in science and engineering
5%
An African-American space scientist and mathematician, is a leading figure in American space history
Katherine Johnson
How many internship hours do you need to graduate from the academies?
80 Hrs